The millionth click

It’s been a great day – we sailed past our target of 1 million clicks in 100 hours late this Saturday morning. The site became a little sluggish as the couter got closer and closer to the 1 million mark, probably because everyone was hitting the refresh button (I know I was!).

Anyway, we made it and with plenty of time to spare. We’ll keep the Zoonometer™ until the end of the 100 hours to see how far we get – my bet is for something close to 1.5 million.

So I know you all want to know. Who made the 1 millionth click and what was the galaxy? The galaxy that received the 1 millionth click was this this gem SDSS J084054.83+422839.8:

The Zooite to make the 1 millionth click was jdavenport. jdavenport joined Galaxy Zoo back in August 2008 when the original Galaxy Zoo was still active. jdavenport has also classified a serious number of galaxies: 531! Thanks jdavenport for all of your help with Galaxy Zoo and thanks to all of you for helping us achieve 1 million clicks in (less than) 100 hours!

If only we could keep up this pace 🙂 A big thank you to everyone who made the count go up over the last 100 hours and especially to the people at NEMO (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), both who made it all possible and the thousands of visitors that dived behind the computers to go and give it a try.
Big hurray for astronomy 🙂

good idea to leave the zoonometer keep going. It would be interesting to get the date the zoonometer started as if it will be staying on a more permanent basis, be interesting to see how much progress was made from when

Congrats to jdavenport, now a thought…I don’t know if anyone here has read Mr. John Sandford’s (this isn’t his real name it’s John something else) Prey books. It’s a serie of 15 (from last count) books featuring a Minnesota cop named Lucas Davenport, so I was wondering when I read jdavenport and it reminded me of the series (I’m currently starting to read Invisible Prey, the one before last in the series. The other is Phanton Prey). It’s a pretty good series, it has lots of action and yeah a little bit of stuff not for kids under 18, but other than that it’s awesome. Sorry for writing all this stuff that has nothing to do with GZ, my apologies.